[Remote] Software Engineer, Compute Team

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Planet is a company that designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, providing unprecedented datasets via a cloud-based platform. They are seeking a Software Engineer for the Compute Team to develop and operate distributed systems that ensure reliable execution of workflows at scale, utilizing technologies such as Go, Python, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Spearheads the evolution of compute and data delivery services with an emphasis on scale and user requirements
• Collaborates to enable efficient and rapid access to our variety of new and growing data sets
• Improves reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests
• Manages underlying persistence layers across Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL and BigTable
• Owns the operation of these services by measuring performance, creating alerts, runbooks, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
• Participates in an on-call rotation in support of our team’s services

Skills

• 4+ years of relevant work experience building services in a language like Go or Python, and a clear interest in becoming an expert in both
• Experience of cloud-native development - containerization, cloud services such as GCP/AWS
• Experience with a large shared codebase, continuous integration and deployment workflows, and tooling like GitLab CI
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral; can explain deeply technical topics to teammates and users
• Experience with orchestration workflows (e.g., Temporal) and batch/queue processing for high-concurrency systems
• Expertise in large-scale distributed systems, including data consistency tradeoffs and high-volume networking (e.g., Nginx/Envoy)
• Operational proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Linux internals
• Experience implementing observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor service performance
• Experience working with geospatial data, remote sensing, and related domain concepts

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

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